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...don’t let the dozen-point margin fool you—the Crimson also showcased defense at its finest. Roberts pitched five nearly perfect innings—her game was only marred by one Crusader hit, a single in the first inning...
...Travis Burr. The assist was the rookie’s first this spring.But the Tigers had an answer, as sophomore Mark Kovler rattled off two straight in less than a minute to give Princeton its biggest lead at 9-1.The Crimson had a little fight left, and with Flood a perfect 4-of-4 on faceoffs, Harvard capitalized to post the only goals in the fourth frame.Senior Greg Cohen got in on the scoring action with 9:18 left, and his classmate Evan Calvert added his eighth of the season on a feed from Mahler with...
...Berry has a problem, it lies in the material she and her management choose for her - lots of high-glamour and action showcases, not enough hard-core reality of the kind that brought her an Academy Award in Monster's Ball. Perfect Stranger represents the nadir in this line of thinking. She's Rowena Price, a hard-charging investigative reporter, whose main line of work seems to be catching prominent males in sexually compromised activity. Her putative victim is a high-profile ad man named Harrison Hill (Bruce Willis) who may or may not have murdered her best childhood friend...
...trouble comes - it is like Perfect Stranger in this respect - as it gropes for an ending. In this instance you can see it coming from a long way off and, it is something so obvious you can't believe Ted would not have noticed and anticipated it. But the cars are sleek, Ted's house is chic and even the courthouse - in real life they're pretty scuzzy places - has a kind of burnished glow about it. We relax into envy when we want to be drawn into terror. Luxe is, I think, the enemy of our involvement. It renders...
...side. In fact, the opening guitar strumming of “I-95” positively channels the Beatles’ “Across the Universe,” while the quiet and sweet “Michael and Heather at the Baggage Claim” is a perfect little theme for lovebirds on the go. All in all, “Traffic and Weather” is more than a solid effort. Granted, its thematic ideas border on gimmicky at times, but the work as a whole manages to never cross the line between poignancy and schmaltz. Perhaps...